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RMC Auditor Workshop. July 22, 2010 John J. Knappenberger. Overview. Background Focus of Business Human Values/Interface Change. Who We Are. ANSI. ASQ. ANSI-ASQ National Accreditation Board. ANAB Brand Milwaukee, WI. ACLASS Brand Alexandria, VA. Accredits. Accredits.
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RMC Auditor Workshop July 22, 2010 John J. Knappenberger
Overview • Background • Focus of Business • Human Values/Interface • Change
Who We Are ANSI ASQ ANSI-ASQ National Accreditation Board ANAB Brand Milwaukee, WI ACLASS Brand Alexandria, VA Accredits Accredits Laboratories, RMPs, Inspection Bodies, etc. Management Systems Certification Bodies
Focus of Business • Five key attributes • Price X • Product/service X • Access X • Service X • Experience • Crawford and Mathews, The Myth of Excellence
Focus of Business “Human values, not commercial value, have become the contemporary currency for commerce.” Crawford and Mathews, The Myth of Excellence
Focus of Business – Current Reality* • Idle resources • Mid-2009: 67% of industrial capacity in use • June 2010: 74% • Typical: 79% • 8.4 million jobs lost during 2008-2009 • Credit very tight • Housing slowly edging up • But our industry has held its own, and some have prospered *The Kiplinger Letter, June 11, 2010
So what auditors? Know and Follow Requirements/Obey the Rules
So what auditors? Administrative Discipline Know and Follow Requirements/Obey the Rules
So what auditors? Knowledge/Competence Administrative Discipline Know and Follow Requirements/Obey the Rules
People Skills So what auditors? Knowledge/Competence Administrative Discipline Know and Follow Requirements/Obey the Rules
Challenge of Change • Embrace it • Let it happen • Resist it “Time and tide wait for no man.” Geoffrey Chaucer, c. 1390